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Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: |
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> On February 12, 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>>> So, the only good reason to move to amd64 is when you buy a 64 bit |
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>>>> machine |
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>>> I have 1G RAM and it's a laptop doesn't serve huge databases so I |
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>>> guess despite if my CPU is 64 or 32 bits, I'll just stick with the 32 |
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>>> version, works great... |
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>>> |
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>> Agreed. You have no obvious benefits from a 64 bit arch. You also get to |
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>> not have to struggle with flash wondering if it will work this time or |
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>> not ;-) |
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>> |
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> |
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> just a bit of personal experience: flash works beter using nspluginwrapper in |
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> 64bit mode because when it hangs - it's a simple as shooting it's wrapper |
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> process and not the entire FF. |
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> oh, and for whatever reason wine performs better under 64 bit OS rather than |
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> 32. Don't have any other proof then my own experience but Diablo LOD runs |
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> much smoother once I've rebuilt my system with 64bit with the same useflags |
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> and everything else. |
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I would agree that wine does seem to run better on the 64bit arch. One |
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other thing that I've noticed with a 64bit binary, specifically |
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HandBrake, is that video encoding is *much* faster then it is with a |
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32bit binary. |
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-Hal |
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